Okay, sorry about the wait, but my mother banned me from the computer until my summer reading assignment was finished. Ugh! It took me all day, and then I had to clean my room. Well, I hope you like this chapter, because I woke up early to post it.

Chapter 9 – Losing You One More Time

Troy walked down the stairs to see a bunch of boxes filling the living room. "Huh," he said. "What's going on."

"Oh Toph," Liz said coming from the kitchen. "The company transferred me again. Hun, we're going to Kansas."

"Kansas," Troy asked in shock. "Now? But I..."

"Topher I'm sorry," Liz said. "Can you go get your stuff together?"

Troy turned around and ran up the stairs. He pulled out his cellphone and dialed Chad's number. "Dude, you know it's early? I'll see you at school."

"No you wont," Troy said, shutting his door. "They're moving. Taking me to Kansas!"

There was silence on the other end for a moment. "I'll talk to my dad, remember, he's a cop."

Troy was about to answer when the door slammed open, revealing Jackson. "Boy, what are you doing," he yelled walking closer to Troy. He placed his phone – still on – on the bedside table before backing up. Suddenly he hit the wall and he knew he just put himself into a trap. "I'm on to you," Jackson said. "You're not going to rat us out to your little friends."

Troy gulped and winced as Jackson pinned him against the wall so he couldn't move. "You're going to wish you were never born."

Suddenly Chad could hear moaning on the other end and loud bangs. He didn't speak a word until he heard the door slam shut. "Troy," he said, loud enough so Troy could hear it if he was on the ground. But Troy had drifted into blackness. Chad started to get worried when Troy didn't answer him.

He turned off his phone and then ran down the stairs where his family was eating breakfast. "Dad!" He yelled. "Dad! Troy!"

"Chad, calm down," Joe said standing up. "What's wrong."

"Troy was kidnapped. That's why he was missing! His kidnappers are taking him to Kansas, we have to do something. They're hurting him."

"Chad are you sure it's Troy," his mother asked.

"Yes! He remembers things no one but Troy would remember." He turned to his father. "Dad, we have to do something, and hurry. This may be our only chance!"

"Chad, get your stuff and meet me in the car," Joe said. "I'm calling Jack."

"Jackson!" Liz yelled as he carried Troy's limp body out to the car. "I can't believe you did that!"

"It was the only way we were going to get him out here," Jackson yelled back. "Now get in the front, I'll stay in the back with this monster."

Liz looked sympathetically at Troy before sitting in the front and buckling up. Jackson laid Troy in the back seat and slid in next to him. "Drive," he instructed her. She nodded when the sound of sirens filled the air. "Fast," he added.

The car accelerated and they drove at a speed well over the speed limit as they got on the interstate. The cop car was on their tail the entire time. "Ugh," Liz said. "They wont stop following us!"

"We'll ditch the kid," Jackson said. "If we do that, they'll stop following us."

"But if we stop, then they'll get us," Liz said. "I'm not getting caught."

"That's why we're not stopping. We're just pushing him out."

Liz's eyes widened. "But...he'll get hurt! Jackson, we can't!"

"Do you want to get caught or not?"

Liz sighed and drove close as close to the side of the road as she could without going over the road and down into the ditch. Jackson opened the car door and pushed Troy out the side. Troy tumbled down the grass, landing in the bottom of the ditch. Liz's eyes flooded with tears, he had become a son to her and she hated seeing him...tumble.

"Liz!"

Her eyes jerked open to see the car hit the cement of a bridge.

Joe pulled the police car over to the side of the road and before it even stopped, Jack had the door open, jumping out toward his son. He knew there was something familiar about Topher, something that reminded him of Troy the moment he laid eyes on him. But he realized it was his son when he found the boy asleep in the hall way by the picture of the basketball team on the wall at East High.

Troy was laying on his side in the ditch when Jack approached him. Jack rolled him over carefully on to his back so he could check to see if he was breathing and see if his heart was beating. He sighed with relief as he felt a weak pulse. "Come on Troy," he whispered. "Hang in there Bud."

"Jack!" Joe yelled, running down the hill and into the ditch. "Paramedics are on their way."

Jack looked down into Troy's face. His eye was bruised and his lip cracked. Scratches were covering his face and neck from rolling down the hill. He held Troy's head in his hands, the sound of sirens filling the air.

"Troy, I can't lose you again."

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